Re: A new private mailing list?

From: FMAJ1019@aol.com
Date: Wed Oct 11 2000 - 00:39:39 EDT

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    In a message dated 10/10/2000 8:12:26 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
    susanb@telepath.com writes:

    > 1. was any attempt made to enforce rules of courtesy?
    > 2. without any difference of opinion, where is the discussion? I've left
    > lists with too few creationists and too many evolutionists out of sheer
    > boredom.
    >

    Ditto. Discussion works far better when dissenting opinions are present

    > 3. ID (and creation "science") both claim to be science. Science is
    > constantly exposed to the possibility of "noise and raspberries" it's part
    > of the scientific system of peer review. If ID can't survive even the
    > extremely informal peer review on a list such as this one, how is it *ever*
    > going to hope to be taken seriously as science?
    >

    Well said.

    > It's up to you if you want to belong to a list full of self-congratulatory
    > agreement. To me that would be as dull as ditchwater. You can't learn
    > anything from people who know everything you know.
    >

    My view exactly. I learn far more from those who disagree with my opinion
    than from those who agree with my views.



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